Alan Moore Quotes About Culture

Quotes about: Culture

• Authority allows two roles: the torturer and the tortured. Twists people into joyless mannequins that fear and hate, while culture plunges into the abyss.

  Alan Moore

  Hate, Two, People

• Sexually progressive cultures gave us literature, philosophy, civilization and the rest, while sexually restrictive cultures gave us the Dark Ages and the Holocaust.

  Alan Moore

  Sex, Philosophy, Dark

  Alan Moore (2009). “25,000 Years of Erotic Freedom”, Abrams Books

• I think that storytelling and creation are very close to what the center of what magic is about. I think not just for me, but for most of the cultures that have had a concept of magic, then the manipulation of language, and words, and thus of stories and fictions, has been very close to the center of it all.

  Alan Moore

  Thinking, Magic, Culture

  Alan Moore, Bill Baker (2007). “Alan Moore on His Work and Career”, p.7, The Rosen Publishing Group

• Culture is just a shambling zombie that repeats what it did in life; bits of it drop off, and it doesn't appear to notice.

  Alan Moore

  Zombie, Culture, Repeats

• Here's the thing: If you're monitoring every single thing that goes on in a given culture, if you have all the information that is there to be had, then that is the equivalent of having none of it. How are you going to process that amount of information?

  Alan Moore

  Culture, Goes On, Information

• If you look at that incredible burst of fantastic characters that emerged in the late 19th century/early 20th century, you can see so many of the fears and hopes of those times embedded in those characters. Even in throwaway bits of contemporary culture you can often find some penetrating insights into the real world around us.

  Alan Moore

  Real, Character, Culture

• There's a widespread cultural barrenness across art and political culture. But there are some pockets of resistance on the extreme margins, like the techno-savvy protest movements, small press, the creator-owned comics, that seem to be getting some signs of hope for the future.

  Alan Moore

  Art, Political, Pockets

• All culture must have arisen from cult.

  Alan Moore

  Culture, Cult

• In countries like the U.S. and Great Britain, we exist in a wholly sexualized culture, where everything from cars to snack food are sold with a healthy slathering of sex to make them more commercially appealing.

  Alan Moore

  Country, Sex, Snacks

  Source: www.avclub.com

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